Word: planets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Opening than will be "The Mad in his Sun", Stirrings Laura La Planet and Pat O'Malley...
...they could see obliterating the light of day. Borneans smashed their household crockery, gave up business and travel, tore their hair, gnashed their teeth, beat their hairy chests. Mountain-dwelling Filipinos donned armor, pounded gongs and descended toward the sea to combat what they believed was a race of planet-devouring crocodiles. But other humans behaved quite otherwise. From the opposite side of the earth they had thronged to put themselves in the shadow's path -astronomers from Holland, England, Italy, from Swarthmore College, U. S. Naval Observatory, Harvard University, Allegheny College and the U. S. Bureau of Standards...
Though we speak of the noontide sun as "beating down" on our heads, it does nothing of the kind. Both sun and moon, when overhead, actually "pull up" on us, their gravitational action counteracting that of our own planet, so that our heads and all other earthly objects are physically lighter at high noon and under the moon's zenith than at other times...
...those who are interested only in the grand problems of the universe and this, its man infested planet, a tiny riot in a university is no more than froth on a minute wave of trouble. But to the legions who mass themselves within the halls of learning oven such a petty turmoil has its interest. Even an occasional son of Harvard, fresh returned from divisional examinations, may question the judgments of the lesser gods. But whatever powers exist in what some more caustic critics have termed Caves, need not be too alarmed by the rude murmurs heard about the streets...
...have had the finest career that any man could have in the armed service of our United States. I have had the great pleasure of serving in all our campaigns from the Spanish War to the present and of commanding the greatest air forces ever brought together on the planet. I owe the Government everything the Government owes me nothing...